The Rohnstocks return to deliver what they promise to be the
ultimate experience in violence and gore. Director Mark
Rohnstock and his brother, producer Lars, truly do deliver on
this and have with their previous efforts as well. If you love
German gore masterpieces, the Rohnstock name needs no
introduction. Responsible for such gore fests as Necronos,
Dungeon of Evil and Graveyard of the Living Dead,
the brothers have returned to bring us The Curse of Doctor
Wolffenstein.

Dr. Wolffenstein is not to be confused with the similar well
known undead Doctor Freudstein, who graced Lucio Fulci's
House by the Cemetery, but upon first glancing the title I
mixed up the two. The big talk about this release on horror
groups was that the film was going to be cut of something like 2
minutes of gore footage, but fortunately I received a screener
from Lars Rohnstock and he assured me it was uncut, so I was
understandably excited about this and anxious to watch. The
effects are juicy as Hell and plentiful to the max. We start off
the film with many scenes of Wolffenstein torturing and killing
victims in his decrepit lab. Fortunately for us, the doctor
likes to strip all the girls first so they are completely naked,
which we get an abundance of. I haven't seen this much onscreen
shaved snatch and bouncing bosoms since Death-Scort Service
and thatâs a lot! This movie is a gore effects feast as well.
Blood and guts fill the screen as victims are gutted, limbs are
severed, heads are hacked with a machete (Wolffenstein's weapon
of choice) -- there is even a machete group massacre scene with
blood drenching the screen. If you have ever been longing for
Tom Savini's repeated machete in the head effect from Dawn of
the Dead, then this movie is for you, because itâs done
repeated times and even genre queen Manoush becomes victim to it
in one humorous scene.

The story for The Curse of Doctor Wolffenstein has the
good doctor played by Mika Metz performing experiments, trying
to gain immortality and succeeding, but with a deadly price. The
doctor has become necrotic and is rotting at an alarming rate so
he has to kidnap fresh victims and transplant body parts onto
himself. The movie begins in a village in 1930 where
Wolffenstein is hated by the villagers for his experiments, so
they break into his residence and dispose of him. I love the
opening credit sequence of the movie; the great punk tune "The
Game of Life" by Scheisse Minnelli is really a treat and superb
way to start the film. A lot of the music in this is high energy
punk/pop style music, including the band Wesay and itâs
surprisingly good. I'd like to have the soundtrack. We are then
brought to recent times where we encounter a group of young
adults planning a trip, when they get tickets to the rave to end
all raves. These scenes with the young group fucking around and
having fun bring a comedic and sometimes juvenile staged feeling
to the movie. We get different montages of the twenty-somethings
having fun. The girls seemed to love the guys spraying cans of
beer on their tits -- where can I find a girl like that? Another
scene has them playing with deli meats in a car. We do get one
particular scene with a guy masturbating, which is actually very
genuinely funny and made me laugh out loud. We do need a bit of
comedy to dilute the never ending scenes of bodily desecration.

Predictably the group of partiers have car trouble and
coincidentally end up in the village plagued by "The Curse of
Doctor Wolfenstein!" Even broken down, the group still
manage to have a good time at a local club that a village of
this sort would never seem to have in such a remote setting but
the urban vibe is strong across the country side it seems!
Doctor Wolffenstein even has this worm like creature called the
"Infiltrator" in a cage which burrows its way into peopleâs
bodies and takes control. The sounds it makes reminds me of the
baby from Combat Shock. We get gore/slasher/torture porn
and even alien horror elements in this.

There are some cameos here, such as Olaf Ittenbach as a victim
and his wife is in this as well, briefly I believe. Manoush and
her little dog get killed as I mentioned before and the always
hot Isabelle Fitzgerald from the infamous Snuff Tape
Anthology is fully naked again -- bless her -- and killed in
one of the more gruesome ways in the film with a knife in the
throat, up through her mouth before defecating out her guts. I
must say, Dr. Wolfenstenstein looks very effective and menacing,
wearing this mask over the lower portion of his face, blood
splattered doctors coat and these dead cold eyes.